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On AlterNet: food system

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "food system"

Is Whole Foods Sustainable or Just a High-Priced Hoax? I Took a Job There to Find Out

Is Whole Foods Sustainable or Just a High-Priced Hoax? I Took a Job There to Find Out

Jill Richardson, Ig Publishing. August 18, 2009.
Was Whole Foods truly sustainable, or was it just a high-priced version of the same food one could find in a conventional supermarket?

How We Can Free Ourselves from a Fossil-Fuel-Soaked Diet

How We Can Free Ourselves from a Fossil-Fuel-Soaked Diet

Rebekah and Stephen Hren, Chelsea Green Publishing. June 11, 2009.
By gradually relocalizing our food production we can return to an agricultural system that is much less energy intensive.

Why Our Food System May Suffer the Same Fate as Our Financial System

Why Our Food System May Suffer the Same Fate as Our Financial System

Lisa M. Hamilton, AlterNet. June 11, 2009.
By consolidating, centralizing and homogenizing our food system, we've put all our proverbial eggs in one basket -- and that's a big risk.

Turning Your Lawn into a Victory Garden Won't Save You -- Fighting the Corporations Will

Turning Your Lawn into a Victory Garden Won't Save You -- Fighting the Corporations Will

Stan Cox, AlterNet. June 23, 2008.
The corporate agriculture industry would like nothing better than to see us spend all of our free time in our gardens and not in political dissent.

Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World's Food System

Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World's Food System

Raj Patel, Melville House Publishing. June 2, 2008.
Hunger and obesity stem from the same problem -- the corporations that sell our food determine what we eat and how we think about food.

What Michael Pollan Hasn't Told You About Food

What Michael Pollan Hasn't Told You About Food

Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet. May 15, 2008.
As both obesity and hunger are on the rise, a new book shows why we shouldn't feel guilty about our food choices but angry with a corrupt food system.

The United States' Failing Food System

The United States' Failing Food System

Kevin Danaher, Shannon Biggs, Jason Mark, PoliPoint Press. October 1, 2007.
An interview with a leading food expert on the crisis of the America food system, the fallacy of labels and the organic vs. local conundrum.